/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15946438
i got this gif?

>>15273905
happy pi day

>>15044593
>It's important to realize the nature of his rebellion: not to challenge the theoretical numerical ratio between the circumference and diameter of the ideal sphere, but rather to challenge that sphere to materialize. Irrational numbers don't belong in tangible experiences. It is a question of sorting out the demonstrable from the impossible and then developing models based on the former. Essentially, Bucky is choosing not to play with 'IT, posing the question "why shouldn't mathematics deal with experience"?

"Nature Isn't Using Pi"
Nature can have no perfect spheres because she has no continuous surfaces. The mathematician's sphere calls for all points on its surface to be exactly equidistant from the center. This "sphere," explains Fuller, has no holes. It is an absolutely impermeable con-tainer sealing off a section of Universe, a perpetual energy-conserv-ing machine defying all laws of nature. The illusion of a physical continuum in any spherical system is due to the limitations of the human sense